Back in touch

Been away too long changing jobs, moving interstate and generally doing other things. Sadly those other things don't include painting although I did finish off another Langton, another ship from the Bolitho series HMS Black Prince.

On moving house my main issue was transporting figures. My method which seems to be effective as I unpack is filling the figure boxes with shredded paper, top with bubble wrap and tape up boxes securely with packing tape. The boxes I used are the ones for reams of A3 paper they just  fit nicely into my shelves.

DW

P51 ?

Ok it sounded like a P51 when it flew over, it sort of looks like one but doesn't look quite right.

Black Powder

After receiving the Cardinals excellent 40x40 pre cut plywood bases I started to rebase my AWI armies from AWRG to Black Powder which I can also use for British Grenadier. French and Americans first. Still haven't done artillery yet, may cut some round bases for those and mount crew on washers. Anyway here is a sample American unit coated the bases and edges in a random brown colour I had at home Tamiya XF 72. White glue then dipped into Woodland Scenics Brown Ballast, dry brushed with GW Bleached Bone and finished with GW static grass.

This is a small unit in BP terms will probably make standard unit 4 elements.The flag well its probably not really historical grabbed it off Warflag to give a "finished" look. 

Did the commanders on round bases as well. These figures Old Glory of Rochambeau and can't remember are ones I did in the early 1990's. Photo is not that great either.  The longer grass from some stuff I picked up from LMRS and cant find the label for, will need to rely on memory to find it again.

Hail Caesar

Arrived in the mail and hope they will invigorate my interest in ancients and medieval gaming. I have a stack of figures suitable for anything(?) from Normans in 1066, 1st Crusade,Saxons and Vikings (see posts below). As for ancients  Greeks and Persians sitting in a box waiting for painting. Only problem all are packed for an impending relocation.

Hit Counters

mmmm the one at the bottom of the page says 5,503 ish on my stats page its 10,065.